I tried it yesterday until far past midnight.

gomponents is amazing! I find the abstractions just right. it now looks possible that I can port my minimalistic bun/deno setup with htmx to go.

I found "gow" watcher that allows auto-restart of the development webserver when go code was changed. And I'm using "hx-refresh" header paramter and "hx-trigger='every 250ms'" to have a simple polling browser refresh.

it also integrates well with tailwind css. you can use tailwind vscode extension and define a custom "classRegex" for gomponents "Class(...)" function.

I needed to write a custom `Classes()` function that allows me to have conditional classes like `clsx()`. it's a bit hacky, but I like the simplicity.

  func Classes(nodes ...g.Node) g.Node {
    var classes []string
    for _, node := range nodes {
     if node != nil {
      var builder strings.Builder
      _ = node.Render(&builder)
      c := builder.String()
      c = strings.TrimLeft(c, " class=\"")
      c = strings.TrimRight(c, "\"")
      classes = append(classes, c)
     }
   }
   return Class(strings.Join(classes, " "))
  }

the runtime panics for functions that use vararg for optional arguments and have an invalid number of arguments is probably an okayish trade-off. mixing attributes and children elements in the builder functions, I don't know if it's good or bad, but I like the simplicity; JSX and hyperscript-like functions separate tag, attributes, and children into three different parameters.

edit: reformat and typos.